Through the torrent of time, accompanied by the brilliance of heroes and loyalty, there is no lack of cunning people in the shadows, and their malicious intrigues and intrigues have repeatedly shaken the harmony and stability of the country and society.
Zhuge Liang's warning in "The Teacher Table"——"Be close to the virtuous and stay away from the small"It is undoubtedly a beacon of wisdom, but the flaws of human nature and the entanglement of emotions make this truth not always flawless in reality.
Liu Chan, as a descendant of Liu Bei, was at the helm of Shu Han. However, his reign took a tragic turn for mistaken belief in villains. Huang Hao, the seemingly intimate court eunuch, actually hides a cunning scheming.
He is close on the surface, panders to Liu Chan's pleasures, and controls the power of entertainment, but he secretly controls political affairs and erodes the foundation of the country. His greed and hypocrisy, like poisonous wine, made Liu Chan indulge in comfort, and his fighting spirit and tenacity gradually wore out.
With the departure of loyal courtiers one after another, Huang Hao's dictatorship became more and more arrogant, and the edifice of Shu Han was crumbling. Liu Chan's trust in Huang Hao deepened the turmoil in Shu Han, and the corrupt rule of eunuchs plunged Shu Han into an unprecedented crisis.
Huang Hao's betrayal and fraud finally pushed the country and the people into the abyss from which they will never recover.
There have been many traitors and villains in history, and three of them are particularly notorious, and their bad deeds have left behind three warning idioms that make people laugh at them and have been passed down through the ages.
Qin Shi Huang's great merit was to unify the Six Kingdoms, however, his ** led to social unrest in the late period. After his death, Fusu, who was expected to succeed to the throne, died young, and the powerful ministers Zhao Gao and Li Si joined forces to support Hu Hai to ascend the throne and become the second monarch of the Qin Dynasty, Qin II.
Zhao Gao's cunning is boundless, he sets a palace trap and plays with it"Refers to the deer as a horse"tricks to manipulate power. In that farce, Zhao Gao misled Qin II into mistaking a deer for a horse, so as to confuse the public, making it difficult for the ministers to choose between truth and falsehood.
In the court debate, most of the ministers agreed with Zhao Gao's view, calling him a horse, but several upright people insisted that it was a deer. This is Zhao Gao's strategy of playing power tricks and suppressing dissidents, those who speak out, are either belittled or killed, and those who cater are promoted step by step. "
Refers to the deer as a horse"Therefore, it becomes a warning, symbolizing the reversal of facts and the confusion of right and wrong. Zhao Gao, a cunning figure of the Qin Dynasty, had already acted recklessly during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, and he joined forces with Liu Heng to use mercury to test the drug and conspire, resulting in the death of the First Emperor due to mercury poisoning.
After that, he teamed up with Li Si to tamper with his will, Fusu was deposed, and Hu Hai succeeded him, although he knew that Fusu was virtuous and Hu Hai was dull, but he chose the latter to control power. After Hu Hai ascended the throne, Zhao Gao and Li Si turned against each other and framed and killed Zeng's accomplice.
With the fall of Li Si, Zhao Gao monopolized power until then"Refers to the deer as a horse"A historical scene is staged.
Zhao Gao's crimes could not escape punishment, and Emperor Huhai's short reign came to an end, and his hands were deeply imprinted with the imprint of the fall of the Qin Dynasty. The crimes of this cunning villain are too numerous to mention.
His end was extremely miserable, his bones were insulted, and his family could not escape, which was a harsh trial for his ** behavior. "Refers to the deer as a horse"This allusion has become a stain left by Zhao Gao to history, warning the world not to play tricks and reverse right and wrong, otherwise they will face severe punishment of justice.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the monarch was holy and the selection of talents was fair. However, as the years passed, Tang Xuanzong's desires gradually blinded his reason, and he favored ministers such as Li Linfu.
Li Linfu is mediocre in intelligence, but he is good at flattery. He gradually won the emperor's trust by his trickery and ascended to the throne. Under the sweet words on the surface, Li Linfu's vicious scheming is hidden.
His welcome to Tang Xuanzong is actually a hidden evil, and his ruthlessness is unparalleled. This is a cautionary tale of abuse of power and lack of loyalty.
He is like a loyal shadow of Xuanzong, extremely loyal, but he uses his skills against his colleagues and cunningly excludes the virtuous. Li Linfu is deeply afraid that his position will not be secured, and any talented person will let him be like a man.
He is good at weaving lies to suppress moral role models like Zhang Jiuling and exile them to remote places. Yan Tingzhi, Pei Yaoqing and other upright people could not escape his poisonous hands.
He even bribed his royal courtiers to control the dynamics of the court, and no disturbance could escape his ears and eyes, so as to wait for an opportunity to get rid of dissidents. During those 19 years of rule, Li Linfu was so powerful that he almost held Xuanzong's world in the palm of his hand.
He's a demon hidden behind sweet words"Honey-bellied sword"These four words are a vivid portrayal of his hypocritical and vicious nature, revealing his dual face of inconsistency inside and outside.
According to historical records, Li Linfu's cunning methods were revealed in the ceremony of Tang Xuanzong mourning for him for three days, and his reputation for hypocrisy was thus revealed. However, once we see what it really is, we can avoid being blinded by it.
Li Linfu, as a recognized traitor in history, has a proper ending. In contrast, the Southern Song court succumbed to Jin's peace and gave up recovering the lost land, while Yue Fei, a national hero, vowed to drive out the invaders and revive the rivers and mountains, which was an irreconcilable contradiction between him and Qin Hui.
Qin Hui was scheming, regarded Yue Fei as a hidden danger to his power, and conspired with his wife Wang to frame him under the east window. Wang's plan was to forge a fake surrender letter from the Jin people in an attempt to trap Yue Fei.
Qin Hui was overjoyed by this and was determined to eradicate Yue Fei at all costs.
Qin Hui was cunning to induce Yue Fei to return to the court, but with a false edict, the hero was wronged. "The East Window Incident"The word reveals that the conspiracy will eventually be hidden. As early as the Northern Expedition, Qin Hui had secretly joined forces with the Jin people, hoping to prompt Yue Fei to withdraw his troops through border raids.
After returning to Bianjing, he became even more obsessed with negotiating peace with the enemy, which was a blasphemy of national interests in Yue Fei's eyes. Therefore, the conflict between the two was inevitable, and Yue Fei vowed never to let Qin Hui succeed, which made Qin Hui panic.
knows that the duel with Yue Fei, who is behind people's hearts, has long been doomed. Although Qin Hui died, his crimes were clearly revealed, and Yue Fei, in the name of a national hero, will forever be recorded in the annals of history and shine for thousands of years.
Zhao Gao, Li Linfu and Qin Hui, three treacherous ministers imprinted in the annals of history, their deeds are like a wake-up call, warning us not to follow in their footsteps. The power of justice is like a beacon that illuminates the value of the righteous path.
Whether ancient or modern, East and West, the laws of history and human nature have always been the same. Let us move forward hand in hand and firmly on the path of justice.